It's depressing how few people in the free software space seem to be aware of and understand the implications of California's GunCAD lawsuit
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6It's just another tentacle of the ongoing push to ban general purpose computing for the masses
Oh, and Colorado is considering a bill to require operating systems to verify users' ages in a way that can't be tampered with
I give it until 2030 at the latest that we'll see a draft of a TLS specification with a client identity/age verification mechanism that makes it impossible to interact with the modern web without associating your legal ID with every request
@scathach what do we do about this? Like, say this happens, what can one do to remain anonymously in contact with people online, engage in piracy, etc?
@mirq As long as open sores software exists and can be ran on arbitrary hardware there will be a free underbelly
I expect fedi and piracy sites will continue to thrive and all sysadmins who care about privacy would disable ID verification
I expect fedi and piracy sites will continue to thrive and all sysadmins who care about privacy would disable ID verification
@mirq Unfortunately we (people who value autonomy and privacy) are slowly being forced out of the corporate internet, but considering how much of a wasteland that is I don't consider that a huge loss
If it gets to this point I'd probably get a secondary computer to do banking, healthcare, and government interface stuff, like how a lot of people in Europe are forced to have a second phone just to do bank 2fa
If it gets to this point I'd probably get a secondary computer to do banking, healthcare, and government interface stuff, like how a lot of people in Europe are forced to have a second phone just to do bank 2fa
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